Response Organizations Regulations

13 (1) The procedures that an oil handling facility shall implement on site, in respect of an oil pollution incident arising out of the loading or unloading of oil to or from a ship, include the following:

• (a) the loading and unloading operation is to be shut down immediately and is not to be restarted in a manner that would interfere with the immediate, effective and sustained response to the oil pollution incident;

• (b) the response to the oil pollution incident is to be managed in coordination with the Canadian Coast Guard and federal, provincial and other bodies responsible for, or involved in, the protection of the environment;

• (c) in relation to the quantity of oil involved in the oil pollution incident, up to the minimum spill size determined in accordance with section 2 of the Oil Handling Facilities Standards, the response to that incident in accordance with paragraphs 13(2)(b) and (c);

• (d) the operator takes the measures required during the response to the oil pollution incident in accordance with the priorities set out in section 4 of the Oil Handling Facilities Standards;

• (e) at least one of the persons referred to in paragraph 12(2)(f) is to be accessible to the Canadian Coast Guard during the entire loading or unloading operation; and

• (f) the operator of the oil handling facility is prepared, after the response in relation to a quantity of oil of the spill size referred to in paragraph (c), to respond to an oil pollution incident in relation to the total quantity of oil that is scheduled to be transhipped, to a maximum of 10,000 t.

(2) The equipment and resources that an oil handling facility shall have for use, in respect of an oil pollution incident at the oil handling facility arising out of the loading or unloading of oil to or from a ship, include the following:

• (a) the equipment referred to in paragraph 12(2)(d) that is required to contain and control the oil or, where the oil cannot be contained, to control the quantity of oil involved in the incident, up to the minimum spill size determined in accordance with section 2 of the Oil Handling Facilities Standards, is to be on site during any loading or unloading operation;

• (b) the equipment and resources required to contain and control the oil or, where the oil cannot be contained, to control the quantity of oil involved in the incident, up to the minimum spill size determined in accordance with section 2 of the Oil Handling Facilities Standards, are to be deployed on scene within one hour after the discovery of the oil pollution incident, unless deployment within one hour would be unsafe, ineffective or impracticable; and

• (c) the equipment and resources required to recover and clean up the oil involved in the incident up the minimum spill size determined in accordance with section 2 of the Oil Handling Facilities Standards are to be deployed on scene within six hours after the discovery of the oil pollution incident.